Professor RICHARD B. HETNARSKIJames E. Gleason Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering
at Rochester Institute of Technology USA
The Honorary member of the Yugoslav Society of Mechanics

At the last session in 1998 of the Presidency of the Yugoslav Society
of Mechanics Professor Richard B. Hetnarski, James E. Gleason Professor
was elected an honorary member of the Yugoslav Society of Mechanics.
Richard Bozyslaw Hetnarski was born in Sopnica, Poland, on May 31,
1928. He received an M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Technical
University in Gdansk in 1952; an M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics at
the University of Warsaw in 1960; a Doctor's degree in Technical Sciences
at the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1964. He served as a Reserch Scientist
at the Institute of Aircraft Research in Warsaw from 1955 to 1959, and
as Reserch Scientist at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Reserch
of the Polish Academy of Sciences from 1959 to 1969.

Richard B. Hetnarski immigrated to the U.S.A in 1969, and was naturalized
in 1974. He was Visiting Associate Professor at Cornel University from
1969-1970.
Since 1970. he has had positions in the Department of Mechanical Engineering
at Rochester Institute of Technology; Visiting Distinguished Professor
(1970-1971), Professor (1971-1992), and James E. Gleason Professor (since
1992). Also, he worked as an Aeronautical Engineer at the NASA Lewis Research
Center in Cleveland (1979-80), and was Visiting Professor at the University
of Paderborn, Germany (1980).
Richard B. Hetnarski is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, a member of the American Academy of Mechanics and the American
Society for Engineering Education. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief
of the Journal of Thermal Stresses, Associate editor of Applied Mechanics
Reviews, and Editor of series of four books, Thermal Stresses I-IV, published
by Elsevier. He is the author of numerous papers in Mechanics and Applied
Mathematics, and he translated Mechanics and Mathematics books into Polish
from English, Russian, and German, and into English from Russian. Also
he served as English edition editor of books translated into English from
Polish and Russian.
Lectures and Seminars: University of Pensilvania (1965), Stanford University
(1965), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy (1965), University of Massachusetts
Amherst (1965), Norhwestern University, Evanston (1965), Cornell University,
Ithaca (1970), Rochester Institute of Technology (1970), Xerox Corporation
Rochester (1971), Drexel University, Philadelphia (1972), University of
Calgary (1977), McGill University Montreal (1978), Am. Soc. Mech. Eng.
Rochester (1979), NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland (1980), Technical
University of Aachen (1980), University of Pederborn (1980), Technical
University of Darmstadt (1980), University of Dortmund (1980), University
of Wupertal (1980), University of Siegen (1980), Lehigh University (1981),
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg (1982),
Wright Patterson Air Force Base Dayton (1982), Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton (1983), Eastnam Kodak Company Rochester (1987), Gdansk Technical
University (1989, 1995), University of Niš (1990), University of Kragujevac
(1990), Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau (1994,1996), Université Pierre et
Marie Curie Paris (1994, 1996), Yamagata University Yonezawa (1995), Polish
Academy of Sciences (1995), University of Rome (1996), Shizuoka University
Hamamatsu (1996), National Industtrial Reserch Institute of Nagoia (1996),
Toyama University (1996), Iwate University Morioka (1996), University of
Osaka Prefecture (1996).